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Posts by Wil Clouser

We attempted to push the AMO 3.4.3 update last night but ran into some problems. Our initial investigation is pointing to the advanced search queries taking far longer than the previous version. The slave databases couldn’t handle the load and … Continue reading

Due to the holiday on Monday we’re going to delay the AMO 3.4.3 update this week until June 5th. Aside from some bug and security fixes in this release we’re mainly focusing on search improvements, streamlining the editors’ queue, and … Continue reading

As previously mentioned we’re planning on updating addons.mozilla.org for the 3.4.2 changes tonight. There are 32 bugs that will be fixed with the update. Please let us know if you see any regressions or anything you’d like to see changed. … Continue reading

The AMO team is finalizing the latest update, 3.4.1. This is a bug-fix release addressing things like double escaping, improper L10n redirects, and category cleanup. A list of all the bugs targeted for this release is available. We’ll be committing … Continue reading

I was looking at one of the AMO v3.2 mockups today. There are strings like “See All Interface Tweaks Add-ons” that we’ve avoided up till now, but this isn’t the first time they’ve been proposed. The problem we’re having is … Continue reading

The last time Kubla came up we were still evaluating options and the code was an old version of CakePHP all flushed out with scaffolding. Most of the time between then and now has been spent on other projects (I’m … Continue reading

This is the last part of a three part series. (Part 1) (Part 2) The basic premise of our strategy for dynamic localization was to replace actual strings in the database with ints, which were foreign keys into a `translations` … Continue reading

Since the site launched a couple weeks ago, the AMO crew has been working diligently to polish off some of the rough edges and fix the bugs that have been reported. We’ve pushed an update to the site tonight that: … Continue reading

If you’re reading this, you’ve probably noticed that AMOv3 still hasn’t taken over addons.mozilla.org. We’ve hit some unforeseen problems that have been plaguing us since our attempt to launch on Monday. Without getting into the details, we’re having some issues … Continue reading

This is part two of a three part series. (Part 1) For the static content, we decided to use PHP’s built-in gettext functions. Let’s double check the requirements from part 1: Speed: Strings are pulled from a binary file and … Continue reading